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Interview with Jon Ferrara on Nimble, The Microsoft Accelerator, And The Cloud

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In order to bring our product to market, rather than to try go into direct selling ourselves, or trying to create a market by advertising--which we didn't have the money to do--we started cold calling Novell resellers. Businesses in 2009, 2010, and 2011, when they wanted to start a business, they didn't buy a Novell or use Exchange.

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This Week in VC with Dana Settle of Greycroft Partners

Both Sides of the Table

Closing a VC fund in 2009/10 is a major achievement in and of itself. We also talked about the emergence of New York City as the “hot” new area of entrepreneurship, VC and innovation driven by the quantification of the online advertising industry. Total raised: $83mm; Series B round (July 2009 for $43mm) valued company at $400mm.

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Attract A MILLION New Customers Overnight with YouTube Marketing – Literally

Tech Zulu Event

01% conversion rate again to the people who clicked over to the website from the YouTube video, that’s 185 new customers, 185 people who would have never thought to google search for a tampon service, who will now be signing up to spend the 15 bucks a month to get tampons delivered to their door. If we apply that.01% Comedic timing.

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Top 29 Startup Posts May 2010

SoCal CTO

Kathy Sierra at Business of Software 2009 - Business of Software Blog , May 4, 2010 "In the old days, getting customers was easy. Through advertising or direct sales, these sites harvest intent. 8211; are mostly a loss leaders for Google. 8211; are mostly a loss leaders for Google. You could just outspend.

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Interview with Ian Swanson, Sometrics

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As companies figure out a way to monetize social media, one of the areas which has been lacking is a way to measure the impact and effectiveness of social media advertising. Ian Swanson: Sometrics is a social analytics and advertising company. The firm has also received investments from Greycroft Partners and AT&T.

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Interview with Sometrics, Ian Swanson

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As companies figure out a way to monetize social media, one of the areas which has been lacking is a way to measure the impact and effectiveness of social media advertising. Ian Swanson: Sometrics is a social analytics and advertising company. The firm has also received investments from Greycroft Partners and AT&T.

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Interview with Sean Broihier, Fine Art America

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The way our business model works, is, for example, if you're a. our marketplace, you go to Fine Art America, join, and you get an online profile, much like a Facebook or Google Plus. 2009, at which point it was generating enough revenue for me to live on it full time. For example, we have a. For example, we give them a.